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Tesla's Robotaxi Fleet Will be 'Functionally Ready' in 2020, Musk Says

posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday April 15 2020, @08:48AM   Printer-friendly
from the call-me-a-taxi-ok-you're-a-taxi dept.

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Bytram:

Tesla's robotaxi fleet will be 'functionally ready' in 2020, Musk says - Roadshow:

Last year during its Autonomy Investor Day, Tesla laid out the broad strokes of its plan for a fleet of autonomous Teslas to operate as a "robotaxi" service. Of course, at the time, this seemed like a flight of fancy, given the fact that no car manufacturer is even close to full, Level 5 autonomy, by the standard SAE definition.

Fast-forward to now, and it still seems like a flight of fancy. Nevertheless, problems of practicality, technology, logistics and good sense aren't things that Elon Musk is worrying about, because he confirmed on Twitter on Sunday that the service would be functionally ready in 2020.

[...] Tesla currently offers Autopilot, which is a very competent suite of advanced driver assistance systems when appropriately used, but it's nowhere near capable of "full self-driving" as Tesla likes to call it. So, either the Big T has been sandbagging pretty hard, or Elon is full of what a certain former Vice President would call "malarkey."

Tesla didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.

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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 15 2020, @01:55PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 15 2020, @01:55PM (#983050)

    One would hope so. But things aren't always exactly the way you experience them. People don't generally take taxis because they like them, even Uber. And there certainly are people who have, and will, continue to need to use taxis because they can't afford their own transportation or it just doesn't make economic sense to do so.

    Plus... people are stupidly forgetful of history. A year from now, two at the max, and everyone will have forgotten this outbreak and things will be back to normal. Those who think that this has changed anything long-term are woefully short-sighted.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 15 2020, @04:33PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 15 2020, @04:33PM (#983112)

    Time to wake the fuck up. Peoepl have been living in close quarters for thousands of years. That's not changing. Grow an immune system, you fat pussy.